Oogzy Entertainment
Idle Ages
Five thousand years of history, working for you.
You start with mud brick huts in Sumer in 3300 BCE. Forty civilizations later you are running Ostrogothic Italy, and every age you built on the way there is still producing while the app is closed.
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iPhone and iPad · Free · No ads · 40 ages · 159 heroes · Thirty seconds a day
What is Idle Ages?
Idle Ages is a free idle empire game for iPhone and iPad. You build a chronological ladder of 40 civilizations, from Sumer in 3300 BCE to Ostrogothic Italy in 493 CE. Each age produces wealth, you spend that wealth to upgrade it and to unlock the next age, and you staff your ages with 159 collectible heroes drawn from real history. Give an age a manager and it runs itself, including for up to 8 hours while the app is closed.
Every age keeps its own production line, its own upgrade costs and its own manager, so two players who have reached the same age rarely got there with the same empire. Every fiftieth level in an age locks in a permanent multiplier on its output, and your income per second sits at the top of the screen the whole time.
Idle Ages at a glance
| Platform | iPhone and iPad, iOS 16.4 or later |
|---|---|
| Price | Free to play, with optional in-app purchases |
| Advertising | None. The game shows no ads of any kind |
| Genre | Idle game, incremental, historical simulation |
| Ages | 40, from 3300 BCE to 493 CE, unlocked in chronological order |
| Heroes | 159 figures from history, in four rarities, each with a written biography |
| Offline earnings | Automated ages keep paying for up to 8 hours while the app is closed |
| Progression | One chronological ladder, with a permanent multiplier every 50 levels in an age. No prestige layer |
| Languages | English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic |
| Internet | Needed to save to the cloud and to join events. The ages themselves run offline |
| Age rating | 12+ |
| Publisher | Oogzy Entertainment LLC |
Published by Oogzy Entertainment LLC, which also makes Footie Fight.
How it plays
159 heroes, each tied to their own age
Hammurabi runs Old Babylon. Hannibal runs Carthage. Boudica runs Roman Britain. A hero raises the output or the production speed of the age they belong to, and the 40 legendary heroes raise every age you own at once.
Duplicate copies level a hero, and a levelled manager is what unlocks an age's auto-collect. Copies come from summoning, from tasks, from events and from the daily board, so no hero sits behind a single source.
Walk away, come back richer
An age with a manager assigned keeps producing with the app shut, for up to eight hours. You open the game, bank what accumulated and spend it, and that is a complete session.
Every fiftieth level in an age locks in a block: a permanent multiplier on its output. Those multipliers are what put the next age within reach.
Income per second is displayed at the top of the screen, so an upgrade's effect is visible the moment you buy it.
A written biography on every hero
Levelling a hero unlocks their history: Queen Puabi and the cylinder seal buried with her at Ur, Al-Khwarizmi and the book that gave us the word algorithm. Every hero comes out of the historical record of their own age, or out of the literature that age produced.
All 159 biographies are translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.
Timed events with a second empire
An event opens a separate empire with its own currency, its own short ladder and a leaderboard. Heroes you claim there transfer into your main collection and stay there after the event closes.
Every age in Idle Ages
The ladder runs in chronological order, from Sumer in 3300 BCE to Ostrogothic Italy in 493 CE, and it keeps growing forward from there.
- 3300 BCE - Sumer
- 2686 BCE - Egypt Old Kingdom
- 2334 BCE - Akkad
- 2055 BCE - Egypt Middle Kingdom
- 1900 BCE - Minoan Crete
- 1894 BCE - Old Babylon
- 1650 BCE - Hittites
- 1549 BCE - Egypt New Kingdom
- 1250 BCE - Shang Dynasty
- 1184 BCE - Troy
- 1174 BCE - The Odyssey
- 911 BCE - Neo-Assyria
- 814 BCE - Carthage
- 753 BCE - Roman Kingdom
- 750 BCE - Kushite Nubia
- 700 BCE - Sparta
- 626 BCE - Neo-Babylon
- 560 BCE - Lydia
- 551 BCE - Zhou Dynasty
- 550 BCE - Achaemenid Persia
- 530 BCE - Scythia
- 508 BCE - Classical Athens
- 336 BCE - Macedon
- 305 BCE - Ptolemaic Egypt
- 268 BCE - Mauryan India
- 264 BCE - Roman Republic
- 247 BCE - Parthia
- 221 BCE - Qin Dynasty
- 202 BCE - Han Dynasty
- 168 BCE - Petra
- 95 BCE - Armenia
- 27 BCE - Early Roman Empire
- 43 CE - Roman Britain
- 184 CE - Three Kingdoms
- 226 CE - Sassanid Persia
- 267 CE - Palmyra
- 330 CE - Constantinople
- 372 CE - Huns
- 386 CE - Northern Wei
- 493 CE - Ostrogothic Italy
Open the full encyclopedia of ages, with the art, the heroes and the written history of each one.
Forty legendary heroes
Each age has one legendary hero, and a legendary raises every age you own rather than only their own. Here are all 40 of them. Another 119 epic, rare and common heroes fill out the ages behind them.
- GilgameshSumer
- KhufuEgypt Old Kingdom
- Sargon of AkkadAkkad
- SobekneferuEgypt Middle Kingdom
- MinosMinoan Crete
- HammurabiOld Babylon
- Suppiluliuma IHittites
- Ramses IIEgypt New Kingdom
- Fu HaoShang Dynasty
- AchillesTroy
- OdysseusThe Odyssey
- AshurbanipalNeo-Assyria
- HannibalCarthage
- RomulusRoman Kingdom
- PiyeKushite Nubia
- LeonidasSparta
- Nebuchadnezzar IINeo-Babylon
- CroesusLydia
- ConfuciusZhou Dynasty
- Cyrus the GreatAchaemenid Persia
- TomyrisScythia
- SocratesClassical Athens
- Alexander the GreatMacedon
- CleopatraPtolemaic Egypt
- AshokaMauryan India
- Julius CaesarRoman Republic
- Arsaces IParthia
- Qin Shi HuangQin Dynasty
- Liu BangHan Dynasty
- Aretas IVPetra
- Tigranes the GreatArmenia
- AugustusEarly Roman Empire
- BoudicaRoman Britain
- Cao CaoThree Kingdoms
- Ardashir ISassanid Persia
- ZenobiaPalmyra
- Constantine the GreatConstantinople
- AttilaHuns
- Empress Dowager FengNorthern Wei
- Theodoric the GreatOstrogothic Italy
All 159 heroes are listed here, by rarity, with the summon odds the game publishes and a biography for every one of them.
Questions about Idle Ages
- Is Idle Ages free?
- Yes. Idle Ages is free to download and free to play on the App Store. Diamonds, which are used to summon heroes, can be bought as an optional in-app purchase, and they can also be earned in game.
- Does Idle Ages have ads?
- No. There is no advertising anywhere in Idle Ages, and there are no rewarded video ads. Nothing in the game is gated behind watching one.
- Is Idle Ages pay to win?
- There is no combat in Idle Ages and no way for anyone to take anything from you. Timed events do run a leaderboard, and buying diamonds summons heroes sooner, which helps there. Diamonds are also earned in game, and hero copies drop from tasks, from events and from the daily board, so no hero is locked behind spending.
- How much time does Idle Ages take to play?
- A session can be thirty seconds long: collect what has accumulated, spend it, close the app. Ages with a manager assigned carry on without you, and nothing in the game expires while you are away.
- Does Idle Ages earn while you are offline?
- Yes. Any age with a manager assigned keeps producing with the app closed, for up to 8 hours. Ages without a manager wait for you to tap them.
- Can you play Idle Ages without an internet connection?
- Yes. The ages run on your device, so they keep producing and you keep playing with no connection. A connection is what saves your empire to the cloud and lets you join events.
- Does Idle Ages have prestige or a reset?
- No. Idle Ages is a single run that goes forward through history. Growth comes from two other places: every fiftieth level in an age locks in a permanent multiplier on its output, and every hero you collect raises the ages they belong to. The ages you unlock and the heroes you collect stay on your account.
- What games is Idle Ages like?
- Players of AdVenture Capitalist, Idle Miner Tycoon, Egg Inc and Cookie Clicker will know the loop: production that compounds, managers that automate it, and numbers that keep climbing with the app closed. What Idle Ages does differently is the ladder itself. It is 40 real civilizations in chronological order, staffed by 159 named people out of the historical record, each with a biography you unlock as you level them.
- What are the heroes in Idle Ages?
- Heroes are named figures tied to the age they belong to: Hammurabi to Old Babylon, Cleopatra to Ptolemaic Egypt, Zenobia to Palmyra. A hero raises the output or the production speed of their own age, and the 40 legendary heroes raise every age you own. Each one also carries a written biography, unlocked by levelling them.
- How do you automate an age in Idle Ages?
- Every age has one manager hero. Level that hero with duplicate copies and the age unlocks auto-collect, at which point it produces on its own, including for up to 8 hours with the app closed.
- Is Idle Ages on Android?
- Not yet. Idle Ages is on iPhone and iPad today.
- Where can I read about the heroes in Idle Ages?
- Every hero and every age has a page on this site. The ages are listed at oogzy.com/idleages/ages, in the order the game unlocks them, and each age page carries the art, its four heroes and the biography of each of them. All 159 heroes are indexed by rarity at oogzy.com/idleages/heroes.
- What languages does Idle Ages support?
- English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Arabic. That includes all 159 hero biographies, not only the interface.
Start in Sumer
Free on the App Store, with no ads. Forty civilizations, 159 heroes out of real history, and five thousand years of it to climb.